Wednesday, 10 December 2008

Lincoln

Last Friday I took my wife and my parents on a Steam Dreams puffer train trip to Lincoln Christmas Market.

An early start to get the 9.18 puffer from Kings Cross, sustained with on-board champagne and full English, arriving at Lincoln at about 1pm, returning at 5pm for dinner and a chuff back to London. An excellent way to spend the day.

The market itself - Europes largest - was full of the usual tat that people feel obliged to buy at this time of year but it was interesting to see a good range of real ale for sale among the traditional mulled wine and cider.

Local (ish) breweries, Milestone and Cropton had stalls showcasing their hand pulled ales together with a range of Christmas labelled bottle conditioned beers.

Oh dear. I guess the people buying those beers were intending to give them to dads and uncles as an "amusing" Christmas gift...? I'm not a fan of naughty beer names. Odd, considering how puerile I am 90% of the time.

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Steve Williams is a beer drinker who wishes to share his love of beer with you. He was CAMRA's Regional Director for Greater London from 2004 to 2009. (The views expressed here are my own and may not necessarily be endorsed by the Campaign for Real Ale though)
Steve won the London Ale Taster competition in 2010
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